Talk:Baptist Faith and Message

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The statement:

"a provision which caused considerable discussion and dissent both within and outside of the convention's member churches"

under "Women's Limitations In Marriage and Ministry" should have a reference. The footnote at the end of the sentence does not support the claims of the sentence.

I don't know if I'm really qualified, but I'm gonna take the graffiti celebrating Falwell's death off this page. Some real Wikipedian can review it later, I reckon. ;)

[edit] Of course it is "qualified by Scripture"!

It might not be in the Baptist Faith and Message itself, but a good percent of the congregation and everyone who went through seminary (which comprises the whole staff of the convention) have read this in the Bible: 1 Tim. 2:12 [NIV]: I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man... 1 Tim. 3:2-3 [NIV]: Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

This being said, someone please change that paragraph.63.215.29.113 03:17, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Affirmations section

I'm not sure just what the dickens this section is supposed to mean or say. --Orange Mike 16:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)